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So, at the beginning of 2008 I made a list of 18 things I wanted to do in 2008.

I got six of them done. Well, that's not too bad. (The stop procrastinating on homework thing, though? That totally didn't happen. The get more involved in fandom thing. THAT HAPPENED. Ditto on the "write 150K thing.")

I cannot think of 19 things I want to do in 2009. (I mean, I probably could if I thought about it, but well, I don't particularly want to think about it.)

*squints* it does not take a genius to tell i'm going to be a history major

I am worrying way too much about Narnian armor. (Dust era, now. I'm not currently working on Dust and this isn't even relevant in Dust 9, which is Cair Paravel.)

On the one hand, I kind of want full plate armor (first pic on the left), but to tell the truth, I find full plate kind of ridiculous. It has been three hundred years; I want a change from the Telmarine armor we see in PC. So -- less leather, more plate. Full plate? Maybe. Not as much mail as Peter and Edmund wear. Probably significantly darker in color -- more bronzed, like Miraz's armor -- than the bright armor we see the Narnians wearing in LWW.

Mind you, I'm just talking about humans here -- if I start thinking about nonhuman Narnian army uniforms I'm going to cry. And when I say humans, I mean nobles -- Tirian, his cousin Vespasian, any other nobles that have survived. Knights, more or less. (I am actually not sure if I want Narnian knights. I think I'm going to put the Archenlanders, who do have knights -- the Archenlanders here are a little more traditionally Medieval-esque than the Narnians -- in plate for sure. The cavalry, at least; I haven't thought about the infantry or the archers yet. The archers don't need to wear a lot of armor.)

Where was I? Yes, so I have to somehow combine Telmarine and Narnian designs, kindly ignore the fact that the Narnians are barely clinging to what they have left of traditional Narnian armor. Although it would be kind of funny if some Telmarine king or armorer adapted, oh, minotaur style armor and there are hints of it in the design of Vespasian's armor (we are seeing Vespasian's armor long before we see Tirian's; we may or may not actually see Tirian's armor at all; he may end up in plain plate, rather than the fancy royal bit. But who knows; I certainly don't).

See, I thought all this out, and then I stopped and went, "Hey, you know what? What kind of armor they wear may also depend on the makeup of the army, which isn't all-human, so shit. Are the human cavalry still going to be wearing full plate if they've also got centaurs and minotaurs acting as cavalry? I mean, full plate was developed to protect against missiles like crossbow bolts and arrows, which are obviously still relevant, duh, since I'm not introducing black powder, which led to the downfall of armor for a while there, but STILL."

I. Hate. My. Brain.

*flails wildly*

Endgame, guys, endgame! I know I have been saying this for the past three days, but ENDGAME OH MY GOD. Caspian is getting himself all gussied up for war, baby. I mean, yes, there is the whole matter of the battle and the aftermath and the set-up for part two, but ENDGAME OH MY GOD.

Also, you know me, sixty thousand words in I just figured out the emotional arc for Caspian. Go figure, the narrator has an emotional arc. Who guessed that? NOT ME. (The sad part is that I'm not actually kidding.)

OH YES. Water just beat Dust's current wordcount, 63,033 (and rising!) to 62,619 (which is, you know, rising, just not at this point in time).

You have no idea how excited I am. I cannot concentrate on anything else. (This is bad, by the way, I have things I need to do.)

Bring it on, Miraz. Your army may have been sitting around doing nothing for three months, but the Narnian army has been training its ass off (you have no idea. It has). We don't even need Aslan to beat you this time. *bounces excitedly*